Next Mountain Development
tvOS · Living room screens

Apple TV App Development Company

NXTMT is an Apple TV app development company building native tvOS apps in Swift and the tvOS frameworks — a different design problem from iOS, with focus-based navigation, top-shelf content, and an audience sitting six feet back. Our tvOS app development services handle the focus engine navigation properly, the thing that separates an app that feels native from one that feels like a stretched-out phone screen. We also set up top-shelf content, TopShelf extensions, and Apple's authentication and subscription flows where the app needs them, then take it through App Store review for tvOS. Most Apple TV builds share a codebase with an existing iOS app — see our iOS app development page, or Roku and Fire TV development if your channel needs to reach the rest of the living room.

Designing tvOS Apps for the Siri Remote

tvOS apps that feel native to the living room.

Swift and the tvOS frameworks handle focus engine navigation properly — the thing that separates an app that feels native from one that feels like a port.

We also set up top-shelf content, TopShelf extensions, and Apple's authentication and subscription flows where the app needs them, then take it through App Store review for tvOS.

SwiftTVML / TVJSFocus EngineTopShelftvOS App Store review
PLACEHOLDER IMAGE · 1200×900 Living room shot of an Apple TV interface on a large screen, Siri Remote in hand.
What you get

What's Included in Our Apple TV App Development

Swift and TVML through to a published tvOS app.

01

Built for the couch

Focus-based navigation and layouts sized and paced for a living-room viewing distance.

02

Top Shelf ready

Featured content that surfaces correctly in Apple TV's home screen carousel.

03

Review handled

tvOS-specific App Store submission and the back-and-forth that comes with it.

Deliverables

Native tvOS application
TopShelf integration
Subscription or entitlement integration
tvOS App Store submission
Source and signing handover
PLACEHOLDER IMAGE · 900×700 Xcode showing a tvOS focus-engine layout in the simulator.